What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models

arXiv:2609.18286 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: Under review; replication package available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22695754

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Classical Engine — 10× in this paper
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• Systematic Mapping Study — 6× in this paper
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Cooperation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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Sources

• Emergent World Models and Latent Variable Estimation in Chess-Playing Language Models

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